Tom Raftery is a Global VP for SAP, an Innovation Evangelist, Futurist, and an international Keynote speaker. Tom is responsible for demonstrating the vital importance the Innovation has for enterprises and SAP's strategy and vision to enable organizations to realise the benefits. 

Prior to joining SAP, Tom worked for a number of companies at Group IT Manager/CTO level, and as an Industry Analyst. Tom is also a regular Guest Lecturer at the International Instituto San Telmo Business School in Seville. Tom is also the creator and host of The Digital Supply Chain podcast discussing thought leadership, best practices, and the latest innovations in delivering a sustainable supply chain.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Using solar energy and electric cars
• Substituting electricity for diesel in buses
• Prioritizing energy efficiency and zero-emission
• The cost of wind energy has fallen 50% since 2012, solar has fallen 87%  and lithium-ion batteries 90%.
• How the crisis shifts the organization’s agenda towards energy efficiency and sustainability

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Gabe Perez is one of the first 30 Coupa employees and has worn multiple hats in various roles which include Presales, Implementations, Sales Management, and Marketing to name a few. Has been a key player in Coupa’s IPO team that helped make Coupa be a hit through increasing their share value by almost 10X ongoing. 

As the Vice President of Asia Pacific, he has led the team in growing the Asia business by 300%.   

Coupa Sofware a leader in cloud-based spend management, recently announced that its customers have connected and done business with more than five million unique suppliers through Coupa’s Open Business Network™. Coupa continues to have one of the largest business networks in the world, which encompasses customers and suppliers doing business in more than 100 countries.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How Coupa provides a real-time control tower of all of your spending, risks, contracts, invoicing, and more.
• Coupa’s motto: “We don’t really care about customer satisfaction. We only care about customer success.”
• Why some customers had their results mentioned by CFOs on earnings calls.
• PWC survey of 450 CFOs – the number one thing that was top of mind – implementing cost containment.
• How one of the clients – an airport – cut out a million dollars in funding that allowed them to keep the business stable.
• A German auto manufacturer ran $2 billion of the direct spend through Coupa sourcing optimization had $200 million savings in the first three months.
•  The best piece of advice: “Never be satisfied!”

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Monica Truelsch is Senior Director of Solutions Strategy for Transportation at Infor, the world’s third-largest ERP software company, where she works with the Infor Nexus supply chain network. She joined Infor from Trimble, a world leader in geo-spatial technologies and transportation applications. Her career includes roles in product management, marketing, and sales leadership for advanced technologies in telematics, domestic transportation management, chemical handling, engineered materials, artificial intelligence, and industrial laboratory management. 

Infor Nexus is the world’s leading network for multi-enterprise supply chain orchestration. The network connects businesses to their entire supply chain—from suppliers and manufacturers to brokers, 3PLs, and banks—paving the way for enhanced supply chain visibility, collaboration, and predictive intelligence.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How global supply chain transactions are updated roughly 50 times a second on the  Nexus platform
• China as the primary sourcing market for global supply chains
• Why humans excel compared to AI in a crisis
• How Infor keeps the culture intact while working remotely
• Why diversity is a form of business immunity

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Alan Hellawell is the Venture Partner of Alpha JWC Ventures. Alpha is a successful Indonesia-focused venture capital firm that primarily invests in early-stage tech businesses such as Style Theory, Carro, Kopikenagan, Gudangada and has earned it the moniker of unicorn breeder in a Forbes article.

Prior to this, Alan is also the Chief Strategy Officer at SEA Limited, the parent company of Garena, Shopee, and Airpay, which he was responsible for the overall corporate strategy of the group. Alan was also the managing director of Deutsche Bank prior to SEA Limited and was Deutsche Bank Asia’s #1 ranked analyst for four years running.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• The future of E-commerce in Southeast Asia
• eCommerce in Indonesia – can the market accommodate four major marketplaces
• Will we see consolidation in marketplaces soon
• How long can investors continue to ignore losses in the industry and think equally about EBITDA instead of just top-line growth as a key metrics
• E-commerce platforms switching to in-house delivery
• How a coffee chain became one of the fastest-growing startups in Indonesia
• What do VC firms look for in a pitch deck

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Hari Vijayarajan is the Group Chief Commercial Officer at ONE Championship. ONE Championship is currently Asia’s largest global sports media property in history, with a broadcast to over 2.6 billion potential viewers across 140 countries.

Prior to this, Hari was also the Chief Business Officer of Lazada Singapore, and the Category Leader of Electronics Devices & Accessories at Lazada Group, handling the vertical’s P&L across the South-east Asia region. Throughout his career, Hari has extensive global experience across the United States and the Asia Pacific, in countries such as Singapore, Japan, and also China.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How is the COVID-19 crisis affecting the e-commerce ecosystem
• Opportunities during a crisis
• Pivoting during a crisis and what it takes
• How the digital transformation process is accelerating
• The core values of ONE Championship
• How to get employees to be on-board with company mission

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Richard Lord is the Vice President, Asia-Pacific Japan Sales at Kinaxis and he is leading the expansion and growth of the company in APAC. Richard has more than 25 years of experience working in APAC in different capacities from setting up and growing business from scratch to expanding global business in the region. During our conversation we discuss how Kinaxis is planning to expand to different markets in the region and what is Richard’s perspective on each.

Founded and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, the origins of Kinaxis date back to 1984. The product that’s evolved to today's RapidResponse platform was first introduced in 1995 and now represents, one of the fastest-growing and most innovative supply chain planning systems of record in the marketplace. Kinaxis works with global clients like Ford, Nissan, P&G, Unilever, Schnieder Electric, Nikon, and many others across industries like aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer products, high-tech and electronics, industrial and life sciences.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Planners can make the best decisions for the company – as long as they have the data and visibility
• Planning using unlimited digital twins to determine future actions – it’s like looking into the crystal ball
• Working with P&G for contingency planning – reducing their planning time from 1 full day to an hour
• How supply chains are expanding and diversifying in South East Asia, LATAM, Eastern Europe
• Why is Kinaxis hiring more than 12 headcounts in crisis time? 

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John was the co-founder and President of GT Nexus, the leading cloud platform for global supply chain management, which was acquired by Infor in September 2015 for $675 million.

Prior to GT Nexus, John was an executive with American President Lines, one of the world’s largest ocean liner companies, where he held several executive positions in Asia, North and South America.

Since leaving GT Nexus in 2016, John has become a board member and advisor at several tech start-ups in the logistics and supply chain space including Mercado, Slync or ClearMetal.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Lessons from 17 years of building GT Nexus to an exit of USD 675 million
• How did the COVID-19 crisis affect the digitization of supply chain
• Are 3PLs ever going to catch up in the digital game?
• Startup funding during uncertainty 
• Advice for entrepreneurs

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Stephan de Barse is the EVP of o9 Solutions, driving digital transformation with some of the leading Fortune-500 companies. Globally responsible for all Business Development, Digital Marketing, Creative Marketing, o9 Design Lab, Alliances, Sales Activities, and Strategic Networks and shared P&L responsibility for the Global Revenue Number of the Company.

Founded in 2009, o9 is an AI-enabled platform providing solutions for operations and business planning. Its offerings include demand forecasting, commercial planning, supply chain planning, and Integrated Business Planning, among others.

o9 serves clients in many industry verticals, including retail, consumer goods, apparel, consumer electronics, industrial manufacturing, and oil & gas. It boasts large enterprises such as Google, Walmart, Estee Lauder Companies, Bridgestone, Caterpillar, Nike, General Electric, T-Mobile, and Starbucks, among its clients.

o9’s annual recurring revenue grew by more than 100% y-o-y last year, according to o9.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• [11:02] Solving Fortune 500 Supply Chain planning challenges
• [17:39] Scenario planning and the COVID -19 crisis – the past data have become the worst predictor of the future
• [25:23] Use cases – talking about the largest retailer in the US and Canada
• [30:20] Why a digital twin of the supply chain is important
• [40:17] Strengthening the Supply Chain community with AIM10x
• [45:49] o9 unicorn expansion plans & hiring

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JJ Ang is the Chief Financial Officer of Sendo.vn. Launched in March 2012, Sendo is currently one of the largest C2C marketplaces in Vietnam with a GMV of over US$1 billion dollars annually. 

Prior to this, JJ had over ten years of investment banking and fundraising experience and worked across the globe in countries such as New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Peru, and now, Vietnam. He had also co-founded a merchant bank based in Singapore, which the company had raised close to a billion dollars of growth capital for different management teams over the course of four years.  

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How the COVID-19 crisis-affected Vietnam’s ecosystem
• Opportunities and challenges for e-commerce platforms
• Fundraising & Investment advice
• Technology investment during the crisis
• Dealing with investment and valuation during a crisis
• The situation of the job market today
• Importance of leading by example and communication

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Pedram Assadi has been the COO of foodpanda APAC since January 2019. Pedram began his career within the food delivery industry more than six years ago, starting his own food delivery company in the Middle East. He then moved to Dubai as Head of Operations in Uber. In his current role, he oversees ongoing business operations in the region. Prior to his work in the food delivery industry, Pedram spent three years working for Amazon." 

As part of global leader Delivery Hero, foodpanda APAC now features over 150,000 restaurants on its platforms region-wide and spearheads sustainability activities in the food delivery industry.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Onboarding 15.000 new restaurant partners and 50.000 new rider partners
• Entering the Quick-Commerce industry becoming a  hyperlocal service company
• Pandamart and the grocery space – 1000 Cloudstores in APAC 
• How did the COVID-19 crisis affect foodpanda’s operations
• Giving time back to customers – foodpanda’s most important currency is ‘time’

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